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ft-... Sunday, March 15 National Day of ; Prayer arid Fasting . , . ' For Missing and Murdered . Atlanta Children , f Ske vmmmmy Newspaper Department LJ!"1 NC 27706 Words Of Wisdom ' ' T -. - - . OBEDIENCE The man who would lift others most be vpliftcd himself, and he who would command others mnsl learn to obey. Charles K. Ober VOLUME 59 NUMBER 11 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, MARCH 14,1981 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS School Board Opposes Tuition Tax Credits Says Education Has Been Dealt V Hard Blow " r ft I;. J;- jS J"; ' f -5 ft v." 1 Miss Battle Named Morehead Scholar l V p. , t ' ' 'p. (, - - I ' - I V i i 1 4 V p Is " Enjoy Warmer Weather 1 Mrs. Jean Tucker stands behind her family on her porch in Southwest Philadelphia last Week. The family Is enjoying the warmer weather as she spent most of the winter without ade quate heat because she feould not afford the high price: of heating oil. With her are her A ccused Of Subversion v , Southern African Nation Expels Six Americans AN U.S. relations; with Mozambique took a' nose dive last week, with, the expulsion from the southern African nation of six Americans accused of subversion. The State Department! reacted by accusing Cuba of being behind the Mozambican action. According to a state-. ment by the Mozambique Ministry of Security, the Americans were organizers of a CIA. spy ring that included other foreigners and Mozam bicans. The statement identified the Americans' as Frederick Boyce Lun dahl and Louis Leon Olivier, both second secretaries , in the American embassy in. Maputo, communications officer Arthur Russel, and his wife Mrs. Patricia Russel, who was a political secretary. The wives of Lundahl and Olivier were also said to have supported the subversion and were ex pelled. , The statement accused the Ci A not only of spying but also of deliberately trying to disrupt the Mozambican economy. It said the CIA had intimate ' links with the security ap paratus of South Africa and collected information in Mozambique on South African refugees. The implication is that : this information was the basis for the January 30 raid by South African commandoes who . destroyed three houses of the African National Con- gress of South Africa, kill-! ing twelve members of the ' guerrilla movement.. The Mozambicans also said the CIA had earlier collected information on refugee camps operated in Mozambique by the Zim babwe African National! Union 'led by Robert Mugabe arid had passed it! on to the white Rhodesian, regime in Salisbury. The' Rhodesians used the data to plan their attacks on the camps, the Mozambican statement claimed. Finally, the communi que said the CIA had recruited agents in key in dustries with the aim of aggravating Mozambi que's economic dif ficulties. The statement named fifteen Americans in all allegedly linked to the CIA who over the past five years, had supported , the espionage network. . Nine hatd already been( reassigned; the six others; were given forty-eight hours to depart. Reacting to the expul sions, the State Depart ment said twelve Cuban officials, led by two "senior intelligence of ficers" had "forcibly de-. tained" an' American of ficial in Maputo and had i tried to recruit him to spy for Cuba. The expulsion order came shortly after this unnamed official reported the incident, the ! State Department said. , The department also .suggested there was, significance to the recent Maputo visit by staff from Covert Action, an organization that publicizes the activities and names of CIA of ficials. Lundahl is listed ini Dirtywork : The CIA in Africa, prepared by. Covert Action staffers.j and Russel appears in the1 first volume. Most of the . nine others listed by Mozambique as having previously served there ap-' pear in one of the books. ' One. American student who knew Lundahl when he was in . Lusaka, his previous posting, recalls his membership in a flying: club. "They flew around " each weekend, and we, always thought it a bit strange," the student says. ' (Continued On Page 13) By Trellie L. Jeffers The Durham 0ty Board of Education at its regular meeting on Mon day, March 9, adopted a resolution against the passage of federal legisla tion which would give assistance to private and parochial elementary and secondary school through tuition tax credits. The resolution stated in effect that granting tax credits to parents of. private and parochial school pupils would undermine the prin-:-ciples of public education, i undermine Jhe federal budget, impact upon the local and state budget , ' and violate the Constitu tion of the; United States. The resolution staled, however,)";;;; . The Board is cognizant of the role of private and parochial , schools in, the delivery of ;educat$QtiaJ:...:sjeryices.. , to children . . . the Board is supportive of the rights of: parents ta; enroll their . children in non-public ". schools.!' After passage of : the resolution, the Board authorized Mrs. Josephine D. Clement, its chairman, to mount, an opposition against; further federal budget cuts to education. Mrs. Clement said that she would initiate, the writing 1 of;-vi tetters f to state' leoislators and - - tonV rtWe recognize . the President's : effort to balance the budget, and we support him; but we feel that education has already been dealt a hard blow. We cannot sustain further cuts because the needs arc so great", said Mrs. Clement. With a tax credit to private and parochial schools and further budget cuts to education, parents and educators of public school pupils have a growing fear that funds (Continued On Page 11) CHAPEL HILL Miss Kimberly Jo Battle, daughter of Dr. and Mrs; Joseph Battle of 1636 Marion Ave., Durham, has received a Morehead Award to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. . The announcement was made by Hugh G. Chatham of Elkin, chair man of the board of trustees of the John Motley Morehead Foun dation. A senior at Hillside High School, Miss Battle is president of the Na tional Honor Society, a member of Mu Alpha Theta and the symphonic and marching bands. Miss Battle received the 1981 Morehead for superior achievement and potential. "Evidence of leadership and service, character, academic stan ding and physical vigor are qualities looked for in a Morehead Scholar," said Mebane Pritchett, ex ecutive director of the foundation. The scholarships are worth $14,000 for North Carolina students for four (Continued On Page 3) . . s Ms. Battle v- fit r" IT' ,V ft 1 Newly Elected National Officers Clasp Hands Charles Mannatt, the new Democratic liational chairman (I) clasps hands with Mayor Richard Hatcher ol Gary, Indiana, one of the newly elected vice chairman of the DNC mrthey were elected to their respective posts at the DNC meeting in Washington. UPI Photo No rth C aroiina Bar Examinations Said To Be "Shrouded" Black Party Holds Regional Meeting "RALEIGH The Na tional Black Independent: Political , Party-North Carolina .' Region V membership held a mass meeting on Saturday, March 7, at the Murchison Chapel AME Zion Church in Olivia, N, C. More than fifty members from Lee, Harnett, Wake, Johnston, Orange, Chatham, Durham and Sampson counties, gathered to assess their regional organizing efforts and to share developmental strategies. Local county convenors gave reports on their organizing progress and the entire group con ducted a political assess ment of the region. In keeping with the theme of "Organizing to Build for Change", the group reflected with Dr. John Fleming of Shaw University who reviewed the history of black' political formations in the United States.' In analyz ing the history of the rela tionship of the two major political parties to the masses of black people, Dr. Fleming observed that "The difference between the Democratic and Republican parties is like the difference between 'tweedle-dee' and 'tweedle-dum' ". . Since the NBIPP-NC statewide organizing meeting on January 17, local organizing chapters have been working throughout the state to in troduce, educate, train and expand the awareness . (Continued On Page 3) Justice Fund Challenges Courts Jo Hear Case The Legal Alliace for Greensboro Justice Fund issued a press release last week which says that the "Greensboro Justice Fund believes that, .indictments of six Nazi's for conspiracy to blow up sections of Greensboro is an attempt to cover up the complicity of the govern .ment, specifically the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, in j-jhe November 3 murders. It is an attempt to patch up the BATF's reputation. The indictments are a recognizable response to community outrage over the Klan acquittal and the outcry for investigation of the murders. ' "There ' has been tremendous pressure from all over the state" the release continues, " and from the facts .themselves for the Justice Depart ment to begin an in vestigation. The Depart ment has clear jurisdiction and the cooperation and urging of the victims of November 3. Lawyers and plaintiffs involved in the Greensboro civil rights suit have met twice with representatives of the Justice Department, and U.S..' Attorney H.M. Michaux conceded that jurisdiciton existed and ' (Continued On Page 2) By Donald Marable 1 After three years of laborious studies in the Law, eleven students were denied licenses to practice , their chosen profession of law in the State of North Carolina. Denial was determined by a test and a Board of Examiners which -also numbered eleven, and whose members are not members of the council of the North Carolina State Bar. On October 22, 1980, the eleven graduates filed a complaint in the Superior Court of North Carolina. All of the graduates are black three are from the North Carolina Central Law School, and others from UNC at Chapel Hill, Duke University, University of South Carolina, Howard University and Georgetown Unjversity. , However, the suit is not based on racial issues, and its not directed from NCCU by the number and quality of other schools mentioned. The crux Of the com plaint is that General Statute 84-24 is un constitutional on its face, andjis-appiieil tK the BtJafaof Law Examiners!' of North Carolina in that it is an unlawful delega tion of legislative authori ty and was enacted in direct contravention of Article II, Section I of the Constitution of North Carolina. The-Board, of Law Ex aminers is a group of peo ple who determine who should or should not prac tice law in North Carolina. These are or dinary . citizens, not of legal background, 'if an applicant should , fail the bar exam, he will have no way of knowing what questions he answered correctly or incorrectly. There is no s.vstemflfs review or appeal in the State of North Carolina. "At present, North Carolina allows an appli cant to compare test scores with a model ex am," Larry Dean Bowens, Sponsors Legislative Mobilization Conf . For the third con secutive year, the NAACP ' sponsored a Legislative Mobilization Conference in Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress around proposed legislation that "will disproportionately af fect the black community. According to Mrs. Carolyn Q. . Coleman, North Carolina NAACP . State Field Director, NAACP Branch members from all across the coun try were represented. From North Carolina, there were delegations from each of the Congres sional Districts in the state. Mrs. Coleman said, the political thrust for the North Carolina NAACP Branches is in legislative activities. She said, "We must lobby the Congress as well as our General Assembly if we are to get our fair share of the pie. If we do not, we will find that we have lost many of the gains made over the last twenty years.. The programs targeted for lobbying efforts in clude President Reagan's proposal to dismantle the Community. Relations Ad ministration, successor to the "War on Poverty's" Office of Economic Op- (Continued On Page 11) Building Legal Muscle Relations Commission Needs community Support By Donald Marsble The Purham Human Relations Commission met on ' Tuesday, March 10, in the City Council Chamber City Hall. The empty chamber echoed, as chairman William F, Banks, Jr., called the Commission to order. The : Durham Human Relations Commission was established by the Ci ty Council in October, 1968 to act as a public forum in hearing com-. plaints involving a plaintiff in the suit said. He also made reference to fact that Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C, Washington State, Michigan, , South Carolina, and seven other states all have a system of review and appeal for un successful applicants. In February of 1979 in Michigan, 122 applicants appealed theii1 test scores, and 61 of that number received a license to prac tice law based on that ap peal. Moreover, these states allow for an appli cant to pay a lesser fee, usually $20, for retaking the exam, whereas North Carolina requires that ap plicants pay the . full amount of SI 60 each time. "At least these other states have a system of review and appeal. As you can see, mistakes can oc cur in just a testing situa tion, but North Carolina shrouds the test results and their method of final selection.. There is - ab solutely no disclosure. he , ' strongly reiterated. "I feel . they (the state) are using' : 'boards in this profession and all 'other professions I , as tools to arbitrarily select who they want to operate in North Carolina. Competency testing, is becoming a' respectable fraud :" Bowen said. The graduates are : : represented . by C.C. Malone, Jr., a Durham at- torney, who made an ap-V peal Thursday, February '. 26, after the case was dismissed by Superior Court Judge Robert H. 4 discrimination, to bring the parties together in discussing the facts, and to assist in the resolving of such complaints. , The Commission is made up of fifteen Com , missioners who serve voluntarily by appoint ment of the City Council. These Commissioners renresent a cross-section ;of Durham's economic, ? Hobgood. This' dismissal -'social, business, '1 has not adversely affect:d academic, and profes- the plaintiffs motivation sional community. Fur- they plan to appeal n - (Continued On Page 2) I1"1 M can go. ; , ! ....1 r . 1 11 1 1 ' 1 "- ' -4. 1
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